Durkheim says that there are no religions that are false. They are all equally true in different ways. No religion is more worth than others, and therefore we cannot rank them hierarchically (Durkheim, 1995, p.2). Norway has become a secular country, with a multicultural society. Different people with different religions, skintones, languages, values and traditions live side by side each other. Not everybody respects that, and sometimes take the law and what they see as problems in the society into their own hands. The discrimination case is an example of that. If we go through Durkheim and look at the hairdresser, she ranks herself higher than the woman of Islamic faith, another way to show this is through a Facebook comment that the hairdresser has written herself, commenting on this case. She writes: “I give service to everybody, with that I mean everybody that belongs in our society. Men, women and children. “Garment troll” (pointing to the woman wearing the hijab) are not included and does not belong in our society” (Hodne, 2015). If we look at this comment she is telling the woman that Islam as a religion is false and does not belong in the Norwegian society that she exists. Her religion is not tolerated, respected or welcomed.
 

This is something that can be connected with functionalism. Freud, was a functionalist, and meant that everything in the society had a function. (Pals, 2006, p.93) If we take the word of the hairdresser, she says first of all that the woman she rejected does not belong in the Norwegian society, second she says that Muslims does not serve a function in the society. Is that right? Do not Muslims serve a function in the society? If we look closer, we can see that this is wrong, because Muslim is a term that is use to categorize people of Islamic faith. Behind the religion is a person, a human being that serves the same functions  as every other human being, only in different ways. Even though you are a Muslim, Christian, Jew, Agnostic or Atheist, you are still a person, and every person has a function in the society they live in. 

The woman of Islamic faith has also commented on this case and she said: “It hurt me in several ways. I felt small, stupid, not integrated, in pain. I couldn’t understand how a scarf on my head could provoke this”(Mustafa, 2016). Further “she said she felt deeply humiliated to be treated in such a way in a public place in my own country”(Mustafa, 2016). It is clear that her Islamic belief is seen as worthless, not respected and she is not welcomed. Durkheim says that a religion “fulfill given conditions of human existence, though in different ways.” (Durkheim, 1995, p.2) This means that what you believe is personal and only you can decide if that fulfill something, gives you an understanding of the world and the life you live, because as Durkheim says, a faith fulfill different conditions in different ways. With these words, I ask, how someone can take the role as a judge and decide what is the right belief and what is the wrong, and which should not be respected or be seen as equal?